At a board meeting. It’s fascinating how many parents identify themselves by the medical diagnosis of their children (hi my name is Karen and I have a child with a bilateral severe to profound sensorineural loss and two cochlear implants). None of the deaf people here do that

I want to see us start breaking away from the “ASL does not interfere with English development” and start saying it PROMOTES English development.

Deaf intermarriage does not increase the prevalence of deafness alleles biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_genetic

This post by deaf historian is phenomenal. Although Prof Jemina Napier, PhD, FAHA, FAcSS, FASLI notes that this situation is occurring on a national scale, as the blog post hints at, this kind of backlash happens to deaf people who provide any kind of feedback regarding interpreters ALL. THE. TIME. 1/x

Some things I have witnessed, from my privileged position as a hearing, deaf-adjacent person: Providing feedback to an interpreter in person or refusing their services because they aren’t a good fit can make the deaf person appear “mean” to others in the situation. 2/x

That perception of “meanness” or “disagreeableness” can damage the deaf person’s relationship with their colleague, audience, lawyer, doctor, or other service provider, and the consequences of that damage can be subtle and long-lived. 3/x

Interpreters will also refuse to work with the deaf person, and the deaf person gets a reputation among interpreters as “difficult” 4/x

When the deaf person communicates about their interpreting needs to interpreting coordinators, coordinators often behave as if those needs are just princess-and-the-pea-style ‘preferences’ rather than the deaf person knowing and advocating for themself 5/x

In some cases, that person’s future interpreting requests will be handled more slowly/sloppily, or are sometimes ignored altogether because it’s “too hard” to find an interpreter who meets the deaf person’s needs 6/x

Here, with the interpreter going on national platforms, is that deaf people who have spoken out are receiving hate messages from strangers. But it’s another example of the same kind of backlash deaf people experience all the time when self-advocating 7/x

Trudy Suggs, Jon Henner, deaf historian, and others have discussed this in vlogs, articles, published papers and elsewhere. If there are other folks who should be mentioned, please add them here. In conclusion, all of this backlash is shitty and needs to stop. Be better. 8/8

We’re excited about our exceptional lineup of presenters for our upcoming 2021 Deaf in Healthcare Summit for Interpreters! On Friday, April 16th, Nigel Howard, Mike McKee & Trudy Suggs will kick off a great summit with several thought-provoking workshops.

Author Raychelle L. Harris & .Trudy Suggs' son, Keene Shank, discuss the impact of this weekend's Deaf Author's Book Festival at .We Are TSD. Spectrum News 1 Texas

On Threads. Same name. Follow me over there.

So…we’re still all hanging out on X/Twitter, then?

Again, this begs the question: how’d he get elected in the first place?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Forrest Gump is a genius.

Best line of tonight: after watching people scream in Times Square at 11:57, my oldest turned to me and said, “You know, that’s my personal hell.” #definitelymykid

You gonna get back to me about the urinating driver we had? Uber